it opened under the shadow of Vesuvius the first iOS Academy european, the gym of talents tagged Apple that aims to train the programmers of tomorrow. Announced in January 2016, the initiative has made headlines and generated great expectations until the month of July of the same year, when matches are played in the selections and have been given specific more in-depth on the structure, and on what would have occupied.
The Academy has landed on the soil of naples following in the footsteps of the creativity, the dowry of the prince of the developer: according to the Cfo of Apple Luca Maestri programmers in europe are, in this sense, the most gifted ever. The one you just started it could be the pilot project of a long series. In the case where the first period of observation, met or exceeded expectations, the Italian experience may in fact give way for the birth of reality similar-flung corners of the planet such as Brazil or India. According to current numbers the first year of classes has started off on the right foot: approximately one request per minute (for the first phase of selection), for an acceptance rate of 5%, the lowest of the exclusive faculty of Harvard, which still stands at 5.8%.
The construction of the structure located in San Giovanni a Teduccio district in the east suburbs of Naples, has not yet been finalised but the doors were officially open and they should soon be starting the first lessons. Provided for 200 students (and 400 by next year), chosen regardless of the type of prior learning in the form of a park and programmers for the future, the more heterogeneous as possible. Of these 200, only 17 have girls; with three of them we have talked about the relationship between women and technology, their dreams, and the opportunities that they see in the future.
“WOMEN ARE A VALUE-ADDED”
“women have allowed for a technology more empathetic“. this Is the thought of Martina Happy, a graduate of naples in Graphic Design, which is closer to the world of Apple push not only from the prestige of the united states, but also and above all to expand her professional experience, bringing it beyond the borders of the graphic to be the full 360 degrees” in a world as difficult as that in which he has chosen to work. Convinced of the presence of strong discrimination in the computer world with respect to women, “too often underestimated in the environment,” or even “show as absolutely denied,” he took her shoulders in this battle, and also during the interview, he spoke about his “desire to try to subvert these prejudices”. Women, according to the young designer, are an added value for today’s market of apps and procedures, as with their approach “empathetic and creative” may be more suitable to face the new challenges. Telling an Academy inclusive, where already are exchanged by the first contact and breathe the air of profound creativity, Martina would like to emphasise theimportance of the place in which it stands, a place that is “almost revolutionary”, on which no one would have wanted to bet. A city, however, that, according to you, can lead to a relationship extremely beneficial to both sides: the structure Apple will give prestige to the city, and this in return bringing a gift of what in jargon is called the problem solving, that is, the art of getting typically the neapolitan.
” THE TECHNOLOGY FACILITATES THE DAILY LIFE”
Cristina Improta is a software engineer who comes from the same Frederick II, who has supported Apple from the beginning of this adventure; the same university in which “very few women are found studying in front of a computer, discouraged and often drifted away from the perspective of a study of the scientific-technological because of a prejudice prevailing”. The same that she herself, while loving very much Naples has admitted to have against the city, selected by the engineers of Cupertino. “Why Naples?”. This question has given the same answer, which is usually used to explain the importance of women in the world of new technologies “a different point of view, a perception far from that already rooted“. The inauguration of the Academy was very inspiring: “He gave all of us the sensation that reality, innovative, and courageous, they had at hand”. The key-word? “Innovation“. A concept that the experiment of naples could perfectly embody in the world of programming: the equivalent of a breath of fresh air in a room while state of the art. A step forward towards what, according to young, is the true mission of modern technology: “Improve the everyday life of all of us, to facilitate the actions of all the days and get out of the concept of constraint linked to smartphones and tablets”. The mission of the modern technology and at the same time, the reason for which you approached this course of study which will follow the three-year degree and then the master course and a future, perhaps abroad, even if you would like to have “the freedom to choose and bet on Napoli”. Exactly how did Cupertino.
“THE FUTURE OF the APP IS THE WORLD OF EDUCATION”
In contrast with the common thought, according to Mariarosaria Barbaraci, a computer engineer, “the distance of women from technology” is a given only in Italian, caused by the lack of information that there is in relation to the degrees of the sector. A sin, according to the young, because “the programming is a field that is extremely fascinating” where you can give voice to their creativity and “make everything concrete ideas”. It is essential to approach this work with dedication and passion, the deep, the only way you can continue to walk at a great speed in the world of innovation in a few years, has enabled humanity to pass from the cell as large as intercoms to cars equipped with a computer capable of supporting up to a ninety software. Mariarosaria hopes that the opening of the Academy harbors in Campania, its land, a breath of internationality. Would you like to be later, to continue his training abroad, to be able to “give up” and achieve his dreams and pursue his passion for the technology, he stresses, is often wrongly viewed as something negative. The real problem, according to you, is the way in which it is used, often without the “consciousness needed”. The biggest dream? “Create something that has to do with education”, so as to get closer to the true, the noble, the purpose for which the Internet and social networks have landed in our lives.
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